Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: November 29 (2016)
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 1
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). Our first precursor of the year, the Spirit Awards nominations, came out last week. The below commentary is…
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Precursor: 25th Annie Awards Nominations (2016)
By benefit of receiving a double nomination in a single category, Zootopia barely edges out Kubo and the Two Strings for the year’s most nominated animated feature. The two will likely be duking it out for dominance with Kubo‘s more inventive stop-motion animation sure to be a foil to the Disney juggernaut from earlier this…
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89th Oscars: Screener Watch: Nov. 21-27, 2016
This week saw a number of groups sending screeners. The Orchard sent five; Amazon Studios sent five; DreamWorks/Universal sent one; Fox Searchlight sent one; Focus Features sent one; The Weinstein Company sent one; and DreamWorks/20th Century Fox sent one. Christine Oscar Chances: None: While Rebecca Hall has received excellent notices, the Best Actress category is…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 28 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 27 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 26 (2016)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 48, 2016)
Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. All data is collected from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 25 (2016)
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Oscar Profile #315: Miklos Rozsa
Born April 18, 1907 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary) to Jewish parents, Miklos Rozsa’s father was a well-to-do industrialist and landowner, his mother was a pianist. He himself studied the violin from the age of five. In 1926 he began studying music composition at the Leipzig Conservatory. In 1929, his violin concerto was performed there.…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 24 (2016)
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89th Oscars: Animated Short Film Shortlist
The Academy has announced its ten-film shortlist for consideration for the Best Animated Short Film category at this year’s Oscars. Five these titles will become Oscar nominees. Of these, the only film I suspect to be a lock is Piper from Pixar. Walt Disney’s Inner Workings is also a likely nominee. 10 ANIMATED SHORTS ADVANCE…
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89th Oscars: Live-Action Short Film Shortlist
The Academy has announced its ten-film shortlist for consideration for the Best Live-Action Short Film category at this year’s Oscars. Five these titles will become Oscar nominees. I am not familiar enough with any of these films to know which will become nominees. 10 LIVE ACTION SHORTS ADVANCE IN 2016 OSCAR® RACE LOS ANGELES, CA…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 23 (2016)
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Precursor: 28th PGA Documentary Nominations (2016)
Cue accusations of racism. 13th, Ava DuVernay’s acclaimed documentary isn’t nominated. Those accusations may or may not be accurate, but it seems highly suspicious that a film so acclaimed would be ignored in favor of five documentaries, only two of which are familiar outside of film critics (The Eagle Huntress, O.J.: Made in America) and…
